Where has all my HDD space gone?

[Jakerz]

I am down to 45.65 of my 250GB Hard Drive.
I don't see how I only have that little bit left.
I opened Finder and click on Macintosh HD.
There are 5 Folders...Applications, Library, System, User Guides And Information, and Users.

I click on each folder and here is what Quicklook was telling me...

Applications... 4.65GB
Library... 9.14GB
System... 4.65GB
UG&I... 180.7MB
Users... 84.11GB

That rounds up to 103GB

Where is the other over 100GB that it is saying is used at?

 

[MacDawg]

Try using Disk Inventory X and it will show you

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Take a look at DiskInventory X, OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report or GrandPerspective to see where your HDD space went to.

 

[RaceTripper]

Could also be the /Volumes Doppelganger Folders problem. It happened to me recently.

 

[mikeo007]

I am down to 45.65 of my 250GB Hard Drive.
I don't see how I only have that little bit left.
I opened Finder and click on Macintosh HD.
There are 5 Folders...Applications, Library, System, User Guides And Information, and Users.

I click on each folder and here is what Quicklook was telling me...

Applications... 4.65GB
Library... 9.14GB
System... 4.65GB
UG&I... 180.7MB
Users... 84.11GB

That rounds up to 103GB

Where is the other over 100GB that it is saying is used at?

You're not using bootcamp by any chance?

 

[Jakerz]

Could also be the /Volumes Doppelganger Folders problem. It happened to me recently.

I have a Macintosh HD folder and a Hard Drive icon called Macintosh HD 1...

which one do I delete?

 

[RaceTripper]

I have a Macintosh HD folder and a Hard Drive icon called Macintosh HD 1...

which one do I delete?

Assuming Macintosh HD is your boot drive, the one under /Volumes should be a symbolic reference to /. The other one is the doppleganger. If you do an ls -l in Terminal it would look something like

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 25 09:10 Macintosh HD@ -> /

whereas the other might just look like

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 25 09:10 Macintosh HD 1/


But don't be too quick to delete it until you are sure it doesn't have data you need.

 

[RKpro]

JDiskReport is very good for this. Also check if there are any other partitions on your disk, and check that your Mac OS X partition is actually 250GB (maybe it's smaller for whatever reason). You can see all of this in Disk Utility.

 

[Jakerz]

RaceTripper-

The website you linked me too was what I needed. THANK YOU!!! I just deleted the doppelganger folder and got the 100GB back.


Thanks to everyone else who posted aswell.

 

[RaceTripper]

RaceTripper-

The website you linked me too was what I needed. THANK YOU!!! I just deleted the doppelganger folder and got the 100GB back.


Thanks to everyone else who posted aswell.

I wish they would fix that damn bug. It's a real nasty one. I had my SSD fill up and completely run out of space, & never figured out what was wrong until later. The various file analysis tools mentioned here didn't help either. I thought maybe the SSD controller got flakey on me. I ended up doing a reformat and restore. I found the article later.